No evidence whatsoever, is it a reason to lose faith or a reason to keep faith?

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Originally Posted by agnostic soldier

A lot of christians on this thread keep babbling about how there's so much evidence for god, although they conveniently never provide any evidence. Atheists are generally looking for evidence gained through empirical means. The problem is that christians generally think that personal experience and value judgements are valid evidence.

And why aren't personal experience and value judgments valid evidence?

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Originally Posted by scarmig

It's easy. That which exists in any form in this universe and has any influence on this universe can be empirically tested. That which does not exist in this universe and has no influence on this universe either does not exist, or if it does, it is completely irrelevant (by the fact that it has no influence).

How do you empirically test for the existence of numbers or abstract objects? How do you empirically test for the existence of moral laws? How do you empirically test for the claim that "that which exists in any form in this universe and has any influence on this universe can be empirically tested"?